released October 2, 2023

All have work in Assemblage Sampler, ed. Brian Ang: totalitycantos.net/sampler.html

Brian Ang wrote The Totality Cantos (Atelos 2022). totalitycantos.net includes the complete text and a generator that randomizes assemblages of its one thousand sections. Prose: “Assemblage Poetics”; editor: Assemblage Sampler and ASSEMBLAGE; current poetic project: A Thousand Records, open to the totality of music.

alex cruse works in and across poetry, sound, visual art, film, installation, movement, performance, and public assembly, on Chochenyo Ohlone land. cruse and Kevin CK Lo are DROUGHT SPA, an interdisciplinary experiment and anticapitalist research platform. They have exhibited and performed around the US and world. Writing and other work can be found in: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland, baest, CLOG Journal, Tripwire, Social Text, SFMOMA Open Space, and at alexcruse.xyz.

Lara Durback (she/they) is a writer living in Oakland, CA for 15+ years (unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land). Lara is a maker of many crafts, dancer, roller skater, kitchen witch, scrap collector, archivist, companion to plants, and loves interactions outside. She is thinking about her family of origin (factory workers indebted to the Catholic Church) and how their legacy influences present life force and health. She chooses lineages of plants, animals, and land to make life full. They try to incorporate making art into a network of people that continue to care for one another and make the dead and the unseen come forth to be reckoned with.

Paul Ebenkamp is author of The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015), Late Hiss (Desert Pavilion, 2021) and Regular Acid Consciousness (Despite Editions, 2022). As Position, he released the home-noise album Prism Trash in 2019 (paulebenkamp.bandcamp.com). The Bottom-Right Corner of All Things, a compendium of visual art, is in the works.

Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, was on the editorial board of Black Radish Books, and for 11 years, edited the chapbook press, ypolita press. She has published around 15 chapbooks and has three full lengths, the most recent of which is Vibratory Milieu, out with Nightboat Books. She lives in San Francisco.

Kevin CK Lo is a composer, choreographer, writer, artist and arts worker living on Chochenyo Ohlone land (Oakland). In his compositions for live performance and installation, he utilizes instruments, digital sound processing and generative programming environments to examine spatial and auditory sensitivities, topological structure and audience kinesthetic response while seeking to corrupt conventional compositional/performative/installative rationale. He is one half of the experimental interdisciplinary duo, DROUGHT SPA, alongside alex cruse. His chapbook, OKLDCAAN, was released on Eyelet Press in 2019. Writing can also be found online at SFMOMA Open Space and Cordite Journal.

Joseph Mosconi is a writer and taxonomist based in Los Angeles. A former Google computational linguist, he is currently the executive director of the Poetic Research Bureau, a co-founder and programmer at 2220 Arts+Archives, and an editor at Make Now Books. He is the author of several books, including Ashenfolk (Make Now Books, 2019), Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), Demon Miso/Fashion In Child (Make Now Books, 2014), Renaissance Realism (Gauss PDF, 2016), and, with Pauline Beaudemont, an artist book called This Arrogant Envelope (FCAC Geneva, 2017). With Rita Gonzalez he edited the art and poetry journal Area Sneaks. His poems have been selected for the BAX: Best American Experimental Writing anthology for the years 2014 and 2015. With Andrew Maxwell, he curated an exhibition, THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2017.

Jamie Townsend is a writer and editor living in Oakland. They are the author of the poetry collections: Shade (Elis Press) and Sex Machines (speCt!). They are also the editor of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat) and Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (Jet Tone). They curate the bicoastal magazine project Elderly with Nick DeBoer and the West Oakland salon series Just Like Honey with Ivy Johnson.